Companies / Data vendor
micro1
micro1 calls itself a "data lab to train frontier models & evaluate agents", providing expert human data, real-world training environments, and evaluations for AI development. Recorded here: 9 clauses of its contract in its own words, what it sells, in its own words, 1 disclosed licensing deal, 9 funding events, 7 revenue figures, 28 public prices and 17 market records.
San Francisco, California, USFounded 2022micro1.aiLatest record 16 Oct 2026
How micro1 buys data
micro1, data partnerships page, 11 Oct 2026- What it wants
- SOPs, knowledge bases, internal documentation, CRM data, project histories, QA processes, decision records.
- What it publishes about price
- $100k+ for a qualified partnership, $500k+ for large or multi-team datasets, $1M+ for highly unique data.
- Who it takes
- Operationally mature companies with 30+ employees that work and document in English. US first, then the UK, Canada and other Western markets. A separate track (its posting of 8 Oct 2026) takes companies that have shut down, with 50+ employees at their peak and substantial Teams or Slack history.
- How the holder is paid
- Not published.
- Who removes personal data
- micro1 removes personal information "when relevant" and may rewrite some datasets synthetically. Companies keep ownership.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Up to $50,000 per referred company (up to $25,000 at the programme's launch in June 2026), 7.5% of the licence price where no amount is posted, and a referral field of $75,000 on its posting for shut-down companies; a partner who recruits another partner earns 20% of that partner's payout on top.
We are not micro1's agent, partner or representative. If you hold data it might buy, we can put it in front of micro1 and every other buyer that fits at the same time.
What micro1 sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “Frontier evaluations and RL environments for AI Labs” micro1.ai
Evaluations and benchmarks: “Expert data and evaluation environments built with leading domain specialists across 100+ fields” micro1.ai
Expert and human data: “High quality expert-demonstrated data for frontier robotics labs” micro1.ai
Datasets: “The environment where domain experts create, review, and deliver complex datasets across industries like healthcare, legal, finance, and more” micro1.ai
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “Expert data and evaluation environments built with leading domain specialists across 100+ fields” micro1.ai
- Buys data from owners
- Its programme is set out above.
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Finance, Legal, Medical, Speech and audio
What micro1's contract says
The clauses micro1 publishes for the people it buys data from, in its own words, the costliest first. “Our reading” is ours, not micro1's. These terms change: read the page itself before you sign.
Licence and use
A licence for ever, worldwide, royalty-free and paid in full once, that micro1 cannot lose. It is non-exclusive.
“a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, perpetual license, with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers”
Our reading: One payment covers every future use and every model built on the data, so price it as a sale, not as a licence that pays again.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Passing it on
micro1 may grant the rights on to others, who may grant them on again.
“with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers”
Our reading: Your records can reach companies you never approved, and you are not paid for those uses.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Earlier licences
You promise you have not already licensed the same data on the same or similar terms to anyone else.
“Licensor has not previously entered into any transaction granting a third party rights to license, access, use or otherwise exploit the same Data on the same or substantially similar terms.”
Our reading: Sign it last: once another buyer holds a similar licence this promise is broken, so it rewards selling to micro1 before anyone else bids.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Refunds
If micro1 finds the data manifest materially inaccurate, nothing is payable and you refund what was paid, even after it accepted the data.
“no amounts are payable to Licensor, Licensor will refund any amounts already paid, and no license attaches to any Data. This right survives Licensee’s acceptance or deemed acceptance of the Data”
Our reading: A paid deal can be reversed after acceptance, so the counts in the manifest must be exact and net of duplicates.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Acceptance
After delivery micro1 has 30 business days to reject the data in writing; silence counts as acceptance.
“Licensee has thirty (30) business days after delivery of the Data to reject it by written notice identifying the affected Data and describing the deficiency in reasonable detail; if Licensee does not give timely notice, the Data is deemed accepted.”
Our reading: About six weeks with your data delivered and nothing paid.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026When you are paid
You may invoice only after micro1 has accepted the data in writing.
“Licensor may invoice Licensee only after Licensee has given written notice that the Data has been accepted”
Our reading: Nothing is paid at signature or on delivery; with the acceptance window, cash arrives six weeks or more after you hand the data over.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Who removes personal data
micro1 removes personal information itself, "when relevant", and may rewrite some data synthetically.
“Personally identifiable information (PII) is removed when relevant ... certain datasets may undergo synthetic rewrites that preserve workflow structure”
Our reading: The buyer, not an independent provider, removes the personal data; the Spirit Airlines privacy ombudsman asked to review exactly that plan.
micro1.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Deletion
Deleting the data does not require micro1 to delete or retrain any model, weights or derived work.
“do not require Licensee to delete or retrain any model, weights, or derivative works”
Our reading: Whatever is trained on your data stays in use after the copy is deleted.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026Resale
micro1 may not resell the data as it received it, as a stand-alone data product.
“resell or otherwise commercially distribute the same Data, whether to its customers or any other third party, as received from Licensor and as a standalone data product”
Our reading: A real protection, but narrow: sublicensing and products built from the data are still allowed.
micro1.ai, read 12 Oct 2026
Not published: A fixed licence term (it is perpetual), Exclusivity pricing. Ask for each in writing.
Public prices involving micro1
- Reproducible coding RL environment (feature implementation or bug fix with a deterministic verifier and a golden reference solution), micro1 Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)
Paid hourly; the per-task figure is the hourly band times micro1's own stated time per task, so it moves with how long a task really takes. A twin posting (Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor) states the same pay and time.
The payer's own page, micro1 job board, Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)
$50-100/hour, ~15 hours per runper hour, about 15 hours per task
- Offers to small operating businesses for their internal records (email, Slack, documents), from unnamed AI-data buyers and brokers
A reporter's description of the offers living companies receive, not one named offer: no buyer, seller or accepted price is named. The same article reports a living company (MyPortal Marketing) selling files to micro1, with no price given.
Press report, Business Insider, AI labs are fueling a wild market for your emails and Slack DMs (Charles Rollet, 13 Oct 2026)
six-figure "exploding offers" that expire in 48 hoursper company offer
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 100 employees, 10 years of data, headquarters Europe
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence. Canada returns the same figure.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$284,468 to $666,066per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 100 employees, 10 years of data, headquarters Other
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$113,787 to $266,426per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 100 employees, 10 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$379,290 to $888,088per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 1000 employees, 30 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$2,471,633 to $11,797,513per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 20 employees, 3 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$167,427 to $293,614per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 250 employees, 15 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$717,988 to $2,156,413per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 30 employees, 5 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$203,016 to $376,750per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 50 employees, 10 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence. These are the calculator's default inputs.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$285,896 to $604,463per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 50 employees, 5 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$239,192 to $462,638per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- Operating company's records, micro1 estimator output: 500 employees, 20 years of data, headquarters US
Rendered by micro1's own calculator on 11 Oct 2026 with the inputs named in the item; the page says it is an indicative estimate only. Final payout depends on data sources, volume, quality, access terms and due diligence.
The payer's own page, micro1, data payout estimator
$1,273,005 to $4,681,050per company (estimator output for the stated inputs)
- An operating company's operational data package (micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership, as stated on its referral page)
Stated for companies of 30+ employees, US prioritized, primarily English. The same page offers a $50,000 referral reward per company, which marks the buyer's acquisition budget per deal.
The payer's own page, micro1, company referral page
$100K-$2M+ for approved data packagesper company (approved data package)
- micro1: median advertised hourly pay across its open AI-training roles (AITraining.jobs)
Median of the rates micro1 states in its live job feed, with the 25th to 75th percentile band $45-$115/hr; one platform's rate card, not a market rate. Same owner as AIData.Broker.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, AITraining.jobs, The State of AI Training Pay 2026 (by platform)
$70/hr median; typical $45-$280/hrper hour (median advertised rate, paid to the worker)
- An operating company's records (micro1)
Published tiers for companies of 30+ employees documenting in English. The tier depends on size, uniqueness and how many teams take part.
The payer's own page, micro1
$100k+, $500k+ or $1M+per partnership
- Evaluator running everyday errands with two AI agents, approving key steps, screen-recording and scoring (micro1, US)
Computer-use agent trajectories with human approval and scoring; at about 1.5 hours per run that is $37.50 to $67.50 of labour per evaluated run. A twin listing (Everyday AI Agent Tester) carries the same terms.
The payer's own page, micro1, AI Agent Evaluator
Pay: $25-45/hourper hour (about 1.5 hours per run)
- Driver recording their own car's road navigation from a trailing 360-degree camera (micro1 client project)
Driving footage for navigation models captured on existing commutes; 100 openings, collector supplies camera and mount.
The payer's own page, micro1, Car-Mounted 360° Video Recorder
Pay: $15-20 USD/hour per approved videoper hour of approved video
- Contractor performing repetitive manipulation tasks with handheld devices for robot dexterity data (micro1 for a client, Los Angeles)
Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text; a third of the San Francisco UMI rate for similar work.
The payer's own page, micro1, Robot Whisperer (Skills & Data)
ideal_hourly_rate max 20, min 10per hour
- Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)
An unsigned proposal 25% above the winning bid, filed after the auction closed; as of 14 Oct 2026 it has not displaced Google, the ombudsman wants to review micro1's plan to de-identify the data itself (Dkt. 1684), and the docket notice (ECF No. 1556) is described by a docket summary as stating no amount.
Press report, Fortune, micro1 tries to beat Google's bid to buy bankrupt Spirit Airlines data
$12.5 millionper company archive (unsigned proposal)
- Operator running a handheld UMI gripper through repetitive manipulation tasks in a San Francisco lab (micro1 for a client)
Rate taken from the posting's embedded job data, not its visible text, which states no rate; 10 openings.
The payer's own page, micro1, Robot Training Operator
ideal_hourly_rate max 30, min 30per hour
- Third-person 360-degree video of movement and navigation (Insta360 or GoPro MAX) for a micro1 client
Collector owns the camera; only footage that passes quality review is paid.
The payer's own page, micro1, 360° Video Recorder (Insta360 / GoPro MAX)
Rate: $20 per hour of approved video (PPT)per hour of approved video
- At-home recorder filming household chores first-person on a smartphone headstrap (micro1)
Rate is in the posting's screening question; parallel US and LATAM listings pay per hour of compliant video with a $20 bonus after 20 hours.
The payer's own page, micro1, Smartphone Video Recorder
15$/h of recorded videoper hour of recorded video that passes guidelines
- micro1 net annual run rate after paying experts, on a $500M gross run rate
$150M-$200M of $500M is 30-40% kept; the article's own wording ('retains roughly 60% to 70%') contradicts its numbers, so read it as 60-70% paid out. Single unnamed source.
Press report, TechCrunch
net annual run rate between $150 million and $200 millionper year, kept by micro1
- micro1 gross margin on off-the-shelf datasets resold to several customers
Selling the same dataset more than once more than doubles the 30-40% spread on made-to-order expert work.
Press report, TechCrunch
as high as 80% to 90%gross margin on resold datasets
- Voice recorder, German and English (micro1)
Posted about two months before it was read. Rate as the platform states it, carried by AITraining.jobs, which has the same owner as AIData.Broker.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, AITraining.jobs, Voice Recorder (German + English) at micro1
$30–$65/hrper hour (paid to the speaker)
- At-home recording of household tasks for humanoid robot training (micro1, Nigeria)
One worker's rate; micro1's CEO told the same outlet robotics companies spend more than $100 million a year buying such data.
Press report, MIT Technology Review
$15 an hourper hour (paid to the recorder)
- Reviewing Android agent action sequences and screenshots, pass or fail, on the contributor's own phone (micro1)
Piece rate stated in the posting's screening question; 60 tasks earn about $13, so roughly $13 an hour. Listing closed by the day read.
The payer's own page, micro1, Mobile Agent QA Evaluator (Android)
pays $0.216per task (about 1 minute each)
- Remote worker filming their own household chores first-person with a head-mounted phone for robotics (micro1)
1,000 openings, now closed; a screening question on the same page asks applicants to accept $6 an hour, so the effective rate may have been lower.
The payer's own page, micro1, Daily Routine Video Assistant
Pay: $8 per hour (Fixed hourly rate)per hour
What micro1 earns
Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.
- run-rate Oct 2026Measurerun-rateFigure$1B
- headcount Oct 2026MeasureheadcountFigure~180 people (core team, 14+ countries, fully remote); company also says it is historically profitable
- run-rate Aug 2026Measurerun-rateFigure$500M
- ARR Dec 2025MeasureARRFigure$100M
- annual revenue Sep 2025Measureannualized revenueFigure$60M
- ARR Sep 2025MeasureARRFigure$50M
- ARR Jan 2025MeasureARRFigure$7M
Funding and acquisitions
- 12 Oct 2026EventEmployee tenderAmount$25MValuation$4B
- 9 Oct 2026EventfinancingAmountNot stated. micro1 says the $1 billion data-acquisition commitment is financed through capital provided by Citi and Hercules Capital; neither the size nor the form (debt, credit facility, equity) is given by micro1, Business Wire or The Next Web.
- 26 Jun 2026EventSAFEAmount$1.8M
- 2 Jun 2026EventSPV (Form D)Amount$20M
- 20 May 2026EventSenior secured term loanAmount$10.9M
- 23 Sep 2025EventSPV (Form D)Amount$2M
- 23 Sep 2026EventSeries BAmount$100MValuation$4B
- 12 Sep 2025EventSeries AAmount$35MValuation$500M
- 24 Oct 2023EventfundingAmount$1.3MValuation$30M
Licensing deals
- Oct 2026$1B
In the brokerage market
Oct 2026, referral terms
20% of their payout
A partner who recruits another partner earns a bonus of 20% of that partner's payout, on top of it; one level only, no payout chains.
Oct 2026, price range
$100K-$2M+ for approved data packages
Company requirements listed: 30+ employees, US prioritized, primarily English.
Oct 2026, price range
$50,284 - $92,776 (example output of micro1's payout estimator)
Indicative estimate only, not a quote or binding offer. Inputs: employees, years of data, business entities, share of English, HQ region, regulated or sensitive data. Final offer depends on data sources, size, quality, access terms and due diligence. As read on 11 Oct 2026: by 16 Oct micro1 had replaced this estimator with a three-question one (employees, years of data, headquarters) whose figures come from its server, and no input of the new one gives this range, so the figure can no longer be found on the page.
Oct 2026, referral terms
$50,000 referral reward
Same page says 'No cap on payouts' and, in its FAQ, 'You can earn up to $50K per referral, depending on the size and value of the partnership.' Workflow partnerships pay after onboarding plus a minimum revenue threshold; Corpus partnerships pay once data is accepted by micro1. Credited to a micro1 wallet. Companies that applied before clicking the link are not attributed. Referring does not guarantee placement.
Oct 2026, buyer program
$1 billion over the next 12 months
Buys and licenses data through the Company Data Partnerships program; de-identified data is turned into reinforcement learning environments. Financed through capital provided by Citi and Hercules Capital (the size and form of that financing are not disclosed).
Oct 2026, price range
$100k+ (Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships)
Eligibility: 30+ employees, established documentation, US first then other Western markets, English. Companies retain ownership; PII removed when relevant; some datasets may get synthetic rewrites. Pay factors: dataset size, workflow complexity, quality, domain expertise, uniqueness.
Oct 2026, price range
$500k+ (large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams)
Eligibility: 30+ employees, established documentation, US first then other Western markets, English. Companies retain ownership; PII removed when relevant; some datasets may get synthetic rewrites. Pay factors: dataset size, workflow complexity, quality, domain expertise, uniqueness.
Oct 2026, price range
$1M+ (highly unique, proprietary operational data)
Eligibility: 30+ employees, established documentation, US first then other Western markets, English. Companies retain ownership; PII removed when relevant; some datasets may get synthetic rewrites. Pay factors: dataset size, workflow complexity, quality, domain expertise, uniqueness.
Oct 2026, referral terms
seven and one-half percent (7.5%)
Applies only if no Referral Payout is specified on the Site for that company. Payout is a gross amount inclusive of taxes and fees.
Oct 2026, referral terms
no amount (discretion clauses)
Timing and manner at micro1's sole discretion; no payout earned 'unless and until micro1 confirms it as payable'; holdback or clearance period possible; clawback and set-off if the company deal is cancelled, refunded, reversed or unwound; micro1 decides 'the original lead source'; termination at any time without notice, after which 'all pending and unpaid Referral Payouts are forfeited, except as required by applicable law.'
Oct 2026, buyer program
50+ peak employees, substantial Microsoft Teams or Slack data
micro1's own posting for referral partners, created 8 Oct 2026, for companies no longer operating: at least 50 employees at their peak, substantial Teams or Slack history, in English, from the countries listed.
micro1, Defunct Company Data Partnership posting, 8 Oct 2026
Oct 2026, referral terms
75000 (referral_reward_amount)
The referral reward is a data field of micro1's own posting; the visible page prints no amount. An independent partner's microsite calls the same $75,000 limited time; no micro1 page does.
micro1, Defunct Company Data Partnership posting, 8 Oct 2026
Sep 2026, transaction
more than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days
Stated in micro1's Spirit court filing; no sellers, prices or AI-lab customers named.
Sep 2026, transaction
$12,500,000
All cash from cash on hand, no financing contingency; described as a $2.5 million (25 percent) premium over the Successful Bid. Offered covenants excluding disciplinary, medical, EEO and union material. The Debtors had not responded on the docket through 11 Sep 2026.
Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary, 13 Sep 2026
Aug 2026, broker economics
as high as 80% to 90%
Figure from an unnamed person familiar with micro1's finances.
Jul 2026, buyer program
$100K-$2M+ each, 50 companies
Company Data Partnership Program; companies and amounts per company not disclosed.
Jun 2026, referral terms
up to $25,000 per referred company; $5,000,000 committed to the program
Paid once the referred company enters a paid data partnership with micro1; company must identify the referrer during onboarding. Superseded by the $50,000 headline on the current referral page.
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AIData.Broker, “micro1 in the AI training data market”, reviewed 16 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/micro1
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